Renato Beneduzi is an international arbitrator and expert on Brazilian law with almost two decades of experience in both domestic and international disputes and professor of Civil Procedure, Arbitration and Roman Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO).
Until 2023, professor Beneduzi was a partner at Sergio Bermudes Advogados, a Band-1 arbitration and litigation firm in Brazil.
Education:
– Promotion (PhD), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
– Mestrado (Master of Laws), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
– Graduação (LL.B.), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), Brazil.
Recognitions:
– Recognised by Best Lawyers as leading lawyer in arbitration and mediation.
– Recognised by Who’s Who Legal as national leader and future leader in arbitration.
– Motion of praise and recognition conferred by the City Council of the city of Rio de Janeiro for relevant services rendered to the society.
Academic Activities:
– Academic visitor, University of Oxford (Institute of European and Comparative Law), 2014.
– Ricercatore post-dottorato, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2016.
– ICC Masterclass for Arbitrator, Washington, D.C., 2017.
– Gastwissenschaftler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2018.
– Visiting fellow, Wolfson College, and academic visitor, Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, Cambridge, 2021.
– Visiting Fellow na Universidade de Cambridge (Wolfson College e Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law), Inglaterra, em 2021.
Other Activities:
– Consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in matters of capital markets and arbitration (2020).
– Advisory member to the arbitration committee of the Conselho Federal da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (2019-2021).
– Member of the Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros (IAB) and its Civil Procedural Law Commission.
– Member of the following institutions: Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (IBDP), ICC Institute of World Business Law, Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr) and Société de Législation Comparée (SLC).
– Member of the list of arbitrators of the FGV Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration (FGV) and of the Brazilian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA).
Publications:
Books
– Equity in the civil law tradition (Springer, 2021)
– Introducción al proceso civil alemán (Zela, 2020)
– Actio und Klagrecht bei Theodor Muther (Jedermann, 2016)
– Comentários ao Código de Processo Civil, vol. 2 (Thomson Reuters, 1st ed. 2016; 2nd ed. 2018; 3rd ed. 2021).
– Introdução ao processo civil alemão (Juspodivm, 1st ed. 2015; 2nd ed. 2018).
Edited Books:
– Estudos em homenagem a Sergio Bermudes (GZ Editora, 2023)
– Arbitragem coletiva societária (Thomson Reuters, 2021)
– A Reforma da Arbitragem (Forense, 2016)
Languages:
– Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, English, and Italian.
Bar Membership:
– Admitted to the bar in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2008).